So if Amed Rosario is at Citi Field in a Mets uniform, can Dominic Smith be joining the ranks soon?

The answer is yes, but don’t try pinpointing a date.

Smith isn’t the only one coming as the Mets try to salvage something out of a lost season. Jeurys Familia, Robert Gsellman, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard, pretty much half a pitching staff, are in some way, shape or form progressing toward a return to active duty.

But first, there’s Smith, the 22-year-old first baseman of the future.

“We want to make sure — as with Amed — when he comes here, he gets most of the playing time,” general manager Sandy Alderson said before the Mets’ 6-0 loss to the Dodgers. “I would suspect that would be in the near future, but I can’t give you a specific time frame.”

It should be in August.

“I have said that we prefer to see him earlier than Sept. 1 and I think we will. But other than that, I can’t be more specific,” Alderson said.

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The Mets promoted Rosario, their wunderkind shortstop, before the recent series in Colorado and he made his Citi Field debut Friday. The organization brought him up while the team was on the road. That has definite benefits, but Alderson said it was not necessarily done deliberately.

“On a lot of occasions, it’s been the opponent as well as making the debut on the road. I don’t think in every case it’s been intentional,” Alderson said. “In Amed’s case, really, I think it was coincidental that the deadline was on the Monday and we had the off day and we brought him up on Tuesday. But we felt that Colorado would be a good place to start and two or three days to get his feet wet before coming back to New York.”

Smith, the Mets’ first-round pick (No. 11 overall) in the 2013 draft, was hitting .337 with 16 homers and 73 RBIs through 108 games for Triple-A Las Vegas entering Friday. Alderson said the Mets want him getting the lion’s share of time at first, made easier with the recent trade of Lucas Duda.

“At some point, we’ll just do it. There are player transactions that do take place in the month of August,” Alderson said about making room if necessary. “Often though, that doesn’t happen until the end of August. But I think at some point, if necessary, we’ll just make the playing time available.”

And when Smith comes, he will play, manager Terry Collins said. Collins admitted his time with the prospect has been limited to spring training, which is not the most helpful guide.

“It’s the same thing with Rosario. I saw those kids in spring training. It’s a terrible place to grade out a player. There’s no pressure. You’re facing guys you’ll never see,” Collins said. “He [Smith] is having a great year in Triple-A and that’s what we’re going to go by. Sandy makes those calls and if he comes, he’s going to play.”